[Russia Says It Will Intensify Strikes Against Military Targets in Kyiv] The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on September 20 that Ukraine launched a large-scale attack using drones and Flamingo cruise missiles on September 19-20 in an attempt to disrupt the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) elections. In the past day, Russian air defense forces shot down 1,951 attack drones and 8 cruise missiles over multiple regions of Russia. One Ukrainian cruise missile veered off course and crashed in an uninhabited area. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that all Flamingo cruise missiles launched by the Ukrainian forces were destroyed before reaching civilian infrastructure in the Moscow area. The large-scale attack attempt against Moscow failed, and the Ukrainian forces did not achieve their objectives. The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that in response to the Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure within Russia, the Russian Armed Forces will continue and intensify their use of high-precision weapons to strike military targets in Kyiv.
